C++ , winapi Compare two WCHAR * strings

Question

I want to compare two WCHAR* strings.

How to do it?

P.S. I would like to ignore case while comparing.

I know you can use strcmpi but it id not working for WCHAR*.

Solution 1

For case sensitive comparison, look at wcscmp

For case insensitive comparison, look at _wcsicmp

Solution 2

You have to use the WCHAR_t versions of strcmp. You can find the definitions here.

For case insensitive comparison use wcscasecmp.

Solution 3

Have you considered using StrCmpLogicalW()? Depending on your need that might be preferable to wcscmp.

Comments

[Hooch]

How to use it so that I can ignore case?

[Hooch]

Again, this is case sensitive.

[Thomas Russell]

No, it's not, take a look at the MSDN page. :-)

[Matthew]

@SoumyajitRoy I'm sure something exists, but this question was tagged winapi.

[Ajay]

However, StrCmpLogicalW would care for prefix numbers in string.